It’s a display of power and a blatant threat. No one should include ”crime” in discussing what’s going on. That’s their take. Their story. Their lie. Don’t use their frame.

200,000 YouTube subscribers in 3 months. It shows the international community realizes we are not getting the full truth: Ukraine does not "need" a bad peace deal and Russia is not "strong." This is what is really happening: ▶️ www.youtube.com/@JasonJaySmart

It's hard to think of a more brutal parable against 21st greed than "It caused old men to buy newspapers so that they could lie about the nature of reality at the devastating expense of all current and future generations."

"Compared to warfare, occupation does not decreases human suffering - it just makes it invisible for the world." - Oleksandra Matviichuk Human rights activist, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner

Not news that fear and trauma has taken over many Los Angeles communities—and others across the country— but last night I was at a support group for survivors and family members of ICE raids and the devastation. If watching raid videos is too much for you (I get it), I will share some stories.

🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.

There’s an astounding John Cornyn video in this you won’t believe.

Well this is insane

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

Well, two things. 1) Brazil has a different kind of court system, DESIGNED TO PREVENT COUPS. 2) SCOTUS, led by John Roberts, intervened to forestall a trial and rewrite rules on DQing a candidate. That you don't understand that says you should do some more civics education.

This is the core message that needs to get out: Autopilot/FSD are not designed to keep you safe, they're designed to create the impression that true self-driving is almost here. Tesla has kept elements of the design known to create this impression, even after NTSB proved they contributed to deaths.

"One wants to say of Trump what Lincoln said about Stephen Douglas: “He is blowing out the moral lights around us...he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty [in] the public mind.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-big...

I started a Substack a couple of months ago. I made my first post, and the next day went to check my stats in the app. The very first *recommended* article I saw was from an account with a swastika profile picture called “NatSocToday” promoting a book of Nazi propaganda.

Virginia Giuffre's sister-in-law notes that the FBI already has any information Ghislaine could give up, bc the victims already risked it all to share it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUE...

I wrote this before they sent push notifications this week with swastikas. Folks who are there should really be thinking about where they will go next, because Substack has serious issues both in front and behind the scenes.

Now we have our own Niagara Falls in NYC

One thing that I wish people would internalize is that for all the means they wish democrats would use to oppose republicans and gum up the works, republicans have the means to change the rules and go ahead with what they want anyway.

And here’s the blog post (by @politicussarah.bsky.social) discussing that study: www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/trump-supp...

I've talked about people who miss things Dems are doing. This entire hearing was lit, and I'm only now watching this. Those who were aware during Katrina might consider how we can't do heckova job Brownie anymore and how to fix it.

From the LinkedIn of the woman—a white lawyer from Carlsbad, CA—who filmed this encounter and shared the video:

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

I don't know what Dems will do w/funding & they may well fuck it up (but have been doing going things tactically). But almost no one who is sure Schumer failed by letting CR get a vote in March has reviewed whether he may have been right abt keeping courts open. 233 men may be free bc he did.

It's REALLY easy to say, I've spent the last 4 months being angry abt Schumer and therefore not to reassess that decision. But there is at least an arguable case that keeping govt open prevented a lot of even worse shit--like wholesale shipments to a concentration camp.

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Skip the hypothetical scenario that starts the article, it’s traumatic to even read. But the rest is informative.

New capitalist horror unlocked: Hotels using an "algorithm" to charge guests a $250 or $500 fee for smoking

Do not stay at a Hyatt hotel. They're running fake "smoking detectors" specifically as a revenue-generating scheme and arbitrarily fining guests $500. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19459...

Can everyone share this?

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

UPDATE: Three days on, disabled veteran and US citizen George Retes is still missing after being kidnapped by ICE. His wife has phoned every law enforcement agency in the area, they all say they don’t know where he is. It was his daughter’s third birthday yesterday. This is America now.

You would do well to disseminate this at least as much as the Trump tweet. He attacked her to shut up any talk of accountability for his policies. So rather than gaping at his tweet, talk about accountability.

Share this far and wide. open.substack.com/pub/migranti...

If you won't be silenced or intimidated, if you want to stand up against Donald Trump's authoritarian project--then join us in speaking out and fighting back against his disastrous agenda. Join us at ofthebrave.org. (And you can begin by following us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.)

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 116 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 112 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 109 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

The ACA was the biggest expansion of public healthcare in a generation, termites called it a "half measure." The IRA capped more than a dozen drug prices, termites called it a "drop in the bucket." Biden forgave $180 billion in student loans, termites called it "meaningless." Termites don't help.

“Our purpose is to really document the effect that Donald Trump is having on you.” – @gtconway.bsky.social

Tell your story now about how Trump’s policies are impacting you, your family, and your community. ofthebrave.org/tell-your-st...

They dress like street thugs because they ARE street thugs

I've taken to calling this a "natural disaster theory" of politics: Republicans are impersonal and have no agency, merely a blameless force like a storm surge, and anything they do is Democrats fault for not building the levees high enough.

The best way to conceptualize Jake Tapper's Joe Biden book is that a lot of media views problems that occur under Democratic administrations as caused by Democrats, and problems that occur under Republican administrations as caused by Democrats not having prevented Republicans winning an election.

You could look at all the court rulings that happened in the month after the CR passed (w/2 Dem Senate and 1 Dem House vote) and weigh whether it was worth keeping the courts fully functional. Was it worth having courts open as Kristi Noem sent 200 men to CECOT?

There's a lot of silly pundits who demand that Dems GET ARRESTED (as if they're the ones picking the arrest). But they're not bearing witness to what's behind it. THey're not even covering the efforts that don't result in arrest.